Quotes About Acceptance

Our children begin by loving us; as they grow up they judge us; sometimes they forgive us.

In her room death would come as a friend, a friend with cool gentle hands . . .

If it's meant to be, it will happen naturally.

Nou ja, je weet zelf hoe het is. Je hebt me vaak genoeg vijf verschillende japonnen op een dag zien dragen. Denk je dat je dat aankunt als we getrouwd zijn?' 'Ik zal met genoegen toekijken hoe je je vijf keer per dag omkleedt,' zei Luciano.

Bad things are gonna' happen to you, because they happen to us all. And worrying won't stave the really bad things off. Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to other people's blow-dried outsides. Even the most privileged person in this stadium suffers the torments of the damned just going about the business of being human.

Your mother rolls her eyes at the cat lapping grapefruit juice, says, Everything that comes into this house is crazy - whether we choose them for that or they get that way, I don't know.

The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness.

Patti proposes that I pray to accept whatever reality I'm in, staying alert for practical solutions rather than issuing orders in prayer. It takes discipline to stop beseeching the heavens for wheelbarrows of gold

If we didn't read people who were bastards, we'd never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

our strange cynicism about truth as a possibility has permitted us to accept all manner of bullshit

You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it.

But because of you, I couldn't die and couldn't monster myself, either. So you were the agent of my rescue—not a good job for somebody barely three feet tall. Blameless

What if she's dead?" I said. "She'll stay dead," he said. "She'll still be dead come morning.

The weak spots in our union are there from the git-go—aren't they always? But every difference lures me, for if I can yield to Warren's way of being, his cool certainty can replace my ragtag—intermittently drunken—lurching around.

Somebody touched my foot. Looking down, I found a sandy-haired woman tugging on my boot buckle. Katie Butke, she introduced herself as. Katie was solid as a fireplug and clean as a boiled peanut, affable but unimpressed by the likes of me.

Yet through alcohol's alchemy, I'd swear some nights his shadowy form stands in the yard behind an old push-type lawn mower. Why'd you keep drinking? And Daddy, who was a shrugger, a starer into distances, shrugs and stares. You know…Then he dissolves into the falling snow. I upend the smooth bourbon, trying to achieve the same blunt, anesthetized state that once snuffed him out.

A dowdy, depressed dwarf.

i only know how to exist when i'm wanted.

love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet and brother, arm wrapping shoulders, remember, this is important: you are worth more than who you fuck, you are worth more than a waistline, you are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts, you are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4, you are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C you are worth more than any naked bod

I know sometimes you feel less than human more like an unknown planet no one cares about more like hot guilt more like a catalog of trauma mary, stop trying to die. there is nothing better than looking into the mirror to discover infinite doors. to witness your own bloom. you are the best version of this story. we're all waiting for you

Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.

This is my body, and I am terrified of the space it takes up.

girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good

love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet and brother, arm wrapping shoulders, remember, this is important: you are worth more than who you fuck, you are worth more than a waistline, you are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts, you are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4, you are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C you are worth more than any naked body